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    Airframe Family: Republic F-84
    Latest Model:F-84F-30-GK Thunderstreak
    Last Military Serial:51-9433 USAF
    Compressed ID:General Motors-Fisher Body F-84F-30...
    Latest Owner or Location:Castle Air Museum, Castle Airport (formerly Castle AFB), Atwater, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1951

    Constructed as a F-84F-30-GK by General Motors-Fisher Body at Kansas, City, Missouri.

    November 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-9433.

    November 1954

    To 12th Strategic Fighter Wing, Bergstrom AFB, TX.

    From By 1956 to 1957

    Transferred to 31st Strategic Fighter Wing, Turner AFB, GA.

    1957

    Transferred to 31st Fighter-Bomber Wing, Turner AFB, GA.

    1957

    Transferred to 401st Fighter-Bomber Group, Langley AFB, VA.

    From 1957 to 1961

    Transferred to 166th TFS, 121st TFG, Ohio ANG, Lockbourne AFB, OH.

    Circa 1960


    Photographer: Lt. Col. Charles (Charlie) Jarrett

    From 1962 to 1963

    Transferred to 366th TFW, Chaumont-Semoutiers Air Base, France.
    Deployed in response to the 1961 Berlin Crisis.

    From 1963 to 1964

    To 149th TFS, Virginia ANG, Richmond IAP, VA.

    To China Lake Range, CA.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to Castle Air Museum, Atwater, CA.

    By 1991

    To Castle Air Museum, Castle Airport (formerly Castle AFB), Atwater, CA.
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    18 April 1999


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Castle Air Museum, Atwater, CA

    12 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    12 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    1 May 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Castle Air Museum in Atwater, CA, USA.
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